In reading material on the quorum drive on a sql server cluster in mentions this is the drive the logs are written to. Is this referring to sql log files that are dumped by a process or scheduled job, or some other log files?
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I'm trying to install a server cluster to implement an SQL Server 2005 cluster. No other services (I think this is important).
I've a dual SCSI channel Smart Array with 4 disks configured in a 400Gb RAID 5.
I do not need to move different resource groups from one node to the other, I need only one group with all the resources IP, Network name, MSDTC, and SQL Server..., when a node fails, all services should failover to the other node.
Is it possible to have only one physical disk (RAID 5) for Quorum disk and shared disk?
It would be the following configuration:
[Groups]
Cluster Group
IP Address
Network Name
Physical disk (used for quorum and shared storage)
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
SQL Server
SQL Server Agent
Generic Service (SQL Server Fulltext)
The other option would be having a 1 physical disk Raid 0 for Quorum (146Gb wasted) and another physical disk Raid 5 (3 disk) for Shared Storage, but this schema will have a a flaw point that if Quorum disk fails, the cluster fails....
Any help would be appreciate.
Best regards.
Ilde.
Dear All,
I've the quorum disk of my cluster on win2003 full and I cannot use The cluster administrator because the Service Cluster cannot going up.
Obviously the shared disk (included Quorum) and MSDTC are not visible and I'm wondering if is possible to solve the problem without rebuild the cluster.
Thank you to everybody
We are trying to setup a Windows Server 2003 Cluster with 2 systems and a DAV. We intend to install SQL 2005 on this Cluster. We purchased a DAV with 3 physical disk arrays as follows.
73GB RAID 1 (our plan is to use this to store sql transaction logs)
146GB RAID 1 (sql backups, temp database & other temp files)
420GB RAID 10 (sql databases)
Now as we are setting all this up we find out we need a shared physical drive on the DAV to store the Quorom. It is my understanding we cannot partition the physical drives and use one of the partitions to store the Quorum because when you create the resource for the Quorum the resource is the phsyical disk not the partition.
So my question is, is it in our best interest to buy a seperate physical disk for the Quorom?
My next question is, with regards to the MSDTC, is it in our best interest to buy a seperate physical disk for the MSDTC or can we store it on the 146GB RAID 1 and still use the drive for its original purpose?
Any guidance is much appreciated.
- Nick
Dear All,
I am trying to setup clustering for SQL 2005. I initially want to setup a 2 node cluster in Active/Active Configuration.
I am trying to understand the Quorum disk in SQL 2005. As I understand the quorum disk is a shared resource. How is this resource configured? Would I need to have an iSCSI or fibrechannel connection from each of the nodes to the shared disk?
As well, does each node have a separate data drive? Or do all the nodes use only the shared storage?
Thank you.
Hi
I have been trying to use openrowset with a shared drive, and even though the share has "full control" permissions granted to "everyone" and the accout that SQL runs under has been granted explicit full control permissions I am unable to open the file which itself has no security on it.
Can I not use a \ path and only use mapped drives?
Thanks
below works...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
below doesn't work...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=\cluster02FileManager5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
I have a cluster using Always on on 2012 and i have set up a Witness file share which losts connectivity the other day and a failover was invoked.
Is there a threshold i can change so that the cluster can try a couple of more times to connect before it fails over ?
Quick question re a 2008 failover cluster with Node and Disk Majority:
Under healthy conditions does it matter which node owns the Quorum disk?
My understanding was that the quorum disk should be owned by the active node, in the same way that it owns the active data/log disks?
I've just finished off setting up a cluster and noticed that the quorum seems to want to be held by the passive node.
I've attempted to move it to the active node but nothing seems to happen.
I have a windows 2012 cluster environment that consists of two SQL servers nodes with Quorum disk configured as witness.
Manual failover between nodes is working fine, however the sql instance virtual is not seeing the Quorum disk.
Moreover the Quorum disk has the same number as another cluster storage disk, is that considered a problem?
When I move the SQL instance from a node to anohter, should the Quorum Disk change ownership as well to that destination node ? if it is not changing ownership what would be the problem??
I'm just starting to work with AlwaysOn Availability and WSFC.
I have in my environment (in Azure) a DC, WSFC and to SQL instances, so I have 3 nodes in my Failover Cluster:
WSFC
SQL1
SQL2
If I simulate failure by shutting down one of the SQL boxes my Availability group seamlessly fails over to the other SQL instance - which is great.
However, I'm starting to look into the workings of the Quorum, my envt has the default settings and when I shutdown both of my SQL servers I expected the Cluster itself to go offline as 2 out of the 3 votes will be negative, but the Cluster is still up - Screenshot below when SQL1 and SQL2 are shutdown:
Going through the Wizard (but not changing anything) it shows following config:
We are planning to 2014 migration in few days.
ServerA----- ServerA1
ServerB---- ServerB1
In serverA we have 5databases. And making 5databases as availability group. The replica is ServerA1
In server B we have 3 databases. And the making those 3 databases as an availibility group. The secondary replica is ServerB1.
What is the best option to configure the quoram drive in this situation.
Also Server A1 & Server B1 also we use for reporting purposes.
We have some sensitive data. Is it possible to delete the data while reading the data?
How the memory optimization feature work with always on?
I am trying to move a log file from one drive to another.
What I have done is add another file to my file group. So now my log has a file on the 'e' drive and one on the 'f' drive. I now want to remove the file on the 'e' drive. I have emptied the file on the 'e' drive. When doing the command:
ALTER DATABASE Uniprodruntime
REMOVE FILE m_rk_runtime_log
I get the following error message..
Server: Msg 5020, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The primary data or log file cannot be removed from a database.
I have also gone into enterprise manager and tried to delete the file and it does nothing.
Has anyone run into this?
How do you compare SAN drive vs local drive on a 32 bit server?
Is it good idea to move my DB files to a SAN instead of local?
Canada DBA
Server: SQL 2008 R2
1: TempDB keeps getting filled. Restart of the server has not fixed it. I shrink it, but the space gets filled again. Now I can't even shrink it anymore
2: TempDB is at the wrong location. Its current location is this :C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
How do I change its location?
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
Correct location of TempDB should be: TempDB(T:) But its not there
Being a very novice SQL Server administrator, I need to ask the experts a question.
How do I go about moving a database from 1 drive to another? The source drive (C is local to the server, but the target drive (E is on a Storage Area Network (SAN), although it is still a local drive for the server. I want to move the database from C: to E:. Can someone provide me with instructions?
Thanks,
Rick
How to backup half of dbs from a server on C drive and the other half on D drive and vice versa, first half on D drive and other half On C drive using only one job and one stored procedure??
Using scheduling from job add 2 schedules to the job so first schedule backup first half to C and second half to D , the second schedule backup first half to D and second half to D.
Hello,
I am trying to setup a test cluster and am having an issue. When I try to create the resource of a physical disk it takes both the drive e: and drive q: and doesn't seperate them into two physical disks as resources. This means when I try to associate the quorum disk it links the to physcial disk resource of drive e and q. Then when I try to install SQL2k5 I get the warning about installing SQL on the quorum disk. Am I missing something? Is there a way to seperate e and q onto two physical disk resources so I can specifically associate the quorum to q and the sql to e or should I be setting the quorum disk to a majority node set? Thanks in advance.
John
If my computer has a map drive, i want to delete it, how to do it? Is that right if i right click the map drive and click the disconnect?
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Is there a solution to this problem?
Thanks,
Modez
I'm running out of space on my C. Is it possible to store additional DBs on another drive or do I need to load SQL server onto the new drive?
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Here's what we are thinking about doing:
3x18 GB RAID 5 for OS/apps/database/data.
2x9 GB mirrored for the log files.
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Hi
I have a database(CEB) and my CEB.mdf is on D Drive and CEB.LDF is on
G DRIVE ...NOw I want to move the CEB.LDF on to the different drive ..
can any one suggest me the way and will I have any effect on the database.
It is kind of urgent.
Thanks
RAGHU
How do I move all the databases to a new drive in the same machine?What effects/problems will be?
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Hi,
I have a shared drive mapped to the h: drive letter on my sql server and I want to create new databases on that drive. Is this at all
possible?
I try it and I couldn't see h: even if I typed it in.
Thanks
Hi,
What problems will I get if the hard drive for the transaction logs becomes defective? Will this affect transactions and/or backup? What should I do to fix this problem?
I have an MSDE installation on Windows server 2003. It looks like the C: drive is taking the brunt of the data when I load up the database. I would like to specify a different drive for data...Is there a way to do this?
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NET USE * \XPPRO1SQLExpress /USER:Admin /SAVECRED /PERSISTENT: YES
I'm thinking the problem is with the * (which names the new drive with the next available letter), or that I have to use a password. Everything I've found says nothing about specifying a password though.
The error message I get says "A command was used with conflicting switches."
How is it possible to use sql to verify F: drive is on disk 0 ?
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Hi
Can I de-frag the Drive in which the Data files & Log Files of the SQl Server Exists ???
Please Advice.
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Hello All,
Can anyone be so kind as to turn me on to a script to move a database from spilt drives C: and D: to just drive D:. (we have one of those Dell's that comes with C/D partitions so we split the .dta files with a limit on the primary file, but the damn C: drive still ran low on disk space and now we can't install Win 2003 SP2 on it!)
thanks in advance
Bill
Hi guys. I'm new to MySQL..
I've just installed MySQL on drive C: of the server, but now i need to change it from drive C: to drive D:. Is there anyway of doing this?
Has anyone here ever used a memory drive in conjunction with SQL Server? If so, how and did it help performance?
Dave
We are currently having a "lively" discussion between our DBAs and Server Builders and I am interested in what others are doing. Our DBAs want to take the default SQL install into the C: drive, making sure that NO logs are written to C:. That way there is no chance for the C: drive to become full, crashing the box. Server guys are insisting that we install to a drive other than C:.
I would appreciate any discussion re: what others consider best practice , industry standard, if such a things esist.
Thanks.